Ghost World

Might have missed the point of this (dystopian teen themes?), but I just found the characters unlikeable and the story gratingly dull. The art was good. But! BIG BUT. I really hate self-perceived “subversive” comix (which I presume this is) drawing intentionally ugly characters and then making them huge jerks. We already have a huge cultural ridiculousness, where beauty is equated with “good”, and ugliness “bad”. So “underground” art which purports to be gritty, realistic, pessimistic, etc, but just has ugly people being ugly and doing ugly things to each other makes me think, bah, so unimaginative.